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...Charlotte's Web, The New Yorker's E. B. White retires, as all city intellectuals should, to a roomy barn on a large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider...
...historical interest, the countryside lures his attention. Equating fall planting, rivers blood-red from, leaves, and spring thaw with human birth in The Pot of Earth (1925), he creates a simple, enthralling experience. Eleven is a magnificent poem about an unassuming incident--a boy going to rest in a barn before lunch--which takes on many subtle meanings. The expression is low-power and the structure is well suited to the tone. As a matter of fact, MacLeish rarely forces words to rhyme just for the sake of rhyme. Even while he experiments with different forms, his poetry is never...
When college was over, they decided to go on professionally. A few members of the group were wealthy, and one, David Hersey, persuaded his father to buy the Brattle Theatre in 1948. The Brattle was a barn of a building, constructed in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide a social center for Harvard and Radcliffe and dances every Thursday. When Hersey bought it, the theatre was being rented for various fly-by-night productions, many of them College plays...
With a high overhead (40 employees), Charlie Hunter figures he will be doing well to break even. To help, the store has reconstructed an old barn into a gun shop, stocked it with guns ranging from $75 to more than $2,000. Other items: shooting gloves, alpaca-lined pants and red underwear. Next year, with an eye on the 650,000 hunting and fishing licenses issued in & around the Chicago area, Hunter hopes to add a pond to the farm, sell fishing practice and equipment as well...
...governor said his trouble was caused by accountants' errors, but his explanation did not quiet his critics. Another charge against him centers on five head of cattle from his farm. The animals, infected with contagious brucellosis (Bang's disease) turned up at the Knoxville, Ia. sales barn for regular sale. Beardsley's explanation: a hired man failed to carry out his orders to dispose of the cattle in a way that would not risk spread of the disease. Many Iowa livestock farmers, who rank the spreading of Bang's disease only slightly below murder, were...